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electrikmuse: 72 Letterpress
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An educator cannot be viewed as a technician, a functionary carrying out the instructions of others. Educators are learned scholars, community researchers, moral agents, philosophers, cultural workers and political insurgents. – Paulo Freire from Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via sincecombahee) Educators are… (via carlosesoto)
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fastcodesign: This Xbox Controller Can Sense Your Boredom, Make A Game More Violent Heart rate, temperature, respiration, and perspiration: These are our autonomous functions—our core physiological processes—that signal stress or arousal and can betray our otherwise cool exteriors. Stanford researcherGregory Kovacs is reading these signals through a modified Xbox game controller. By adding a new, sensor-laden…
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And so the will to fight begins, or dies, very young. It dies when you tell your little girl to be quiet and well-behaved. It dies when pretty and sweet are how we praise and opinionated is how we chastise. It dies when a girl is called bratty and argumentative where a boy is brave…
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cinoh: eatdrinkdie: The morning cup of coffee is important. Half-smiling, half-haggard TV housewives shuffle into kitchens in bathrobes warning: ‘don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee.” The laugh track roars and babbles, but it’s a commendable notion. The heat, the caffeine, the ritual awakening. Do you remember the commercials on TV – the…
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The dominant group creates its own stories, as well. The stories, or narratives told by the ingroup remind it of its identity in relation to outgroups, and provide it with a form of shared reality in which its own superior position is seen as natural. The stories of outgroups aim to subvert that reality. In…
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paperbits: porpentine: what would a network look like if it was designed for marginalized people. maybe less capitalistic quantification, less obsessive UIs that cultivate status and reinforce competition between marginals. safety and privacy vs. the system that outs trans people, helps stalkers find their victims, and forces people to use dead names. It would have…
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astrodidact: Want to build your own space agency? Well, now you can, because NASA’s about to give away a whole bunch of their code for free! You’ll have access to the coding behind robots, cryogenic systems and climate simulators. There’s even code for running rocket guidance systems. Read more: http://wrd.cm/1i5Q3H9 via Wired, Science Alert/fb Image: NASA
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Tabletop Day is TODAY! Play Games!
Tabletop Day is TODAY! Play Games! thisfeliciaday: Today is Tabletop Day! Game stores around the world are throwing events, so get out to them, or just bring a board game out in public and play it! It’s the day to raise awareness of how awesome Tabletop Gaming is, so spread word and share pictures and…
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skeptv: Phil: Chinlone (Thought Café Today) Phil takes you on a journey to Myanmar (Burma) to show you the non-competitive sport known as Chinlone – a great passion of his – and what could be considered a very unique sport in our competitive climate. via Thought Café. (Source: http://skeptv.net/)